Category Archives: You Saw It Here Last: My Reviews

Sane New World – Anyone? What do we say when asked what we’d wish ourselves or our loved ones? “A happy life” or “I just want them to be happy” is the usual answer. Okay, aside from the lottery wins and … Continue reading →

The Start Like many who grew up in an age when smoking was cool (even advertised), we’ve struggled – via many attempts and methods – over the decades to quit smoking. The record was two years before succumbing to the wretched … Continue reading →

Reading, Writing And Breaking Free of Genre It Started With A Book: The Villages by Dave Hutchinson Reading So, Dave’s kicked off a Big Thing for me, here. No, not chained me up! This is a metaphorical picture. Originally, I … Continue reading →

This is the slightly fuller version of a review I wrote for the culture geeks at To Do List. They’re into free, cheap and offbeat things to do in London and often promote events I might not otherwise hear about. Or … Continue reading →

Art and I didn’t always get on. I didn’t know much about it. My parents were folk who thought art was the one print of ‘The Haywain‘ on the dining-room wall, or the lairy ’70s green, geometrically-patterned wallpaper in the … Continue reading →

I find this whole Fifty Shades of Grey thing very funny. It apparently began life as a Twilight fanfic piece. I’m not a particularly jealous author. Well, no more than any other. (I’m writing something quite different and, I hope, … Continue reading →

Religious people talk to God and some say it’s a sign of madness when God talks back (see When God Talks Back: Madness or Mysticism by Tasha E. Mansfield). Judith and her father have no doubt spent the ten years … Continue reading →

Jeffrey Deaver’s words were splashed over the front cover, declaring Sister to exist “in that rare place where crime fiction and literature coincide”, which made it a tempting enough choice for me. The book begins “Dearest Tess” and tells us of … Continue reading →

My Memories of a Future Life by Roz Morris Last to read again, there are reasons I’ve reviewed this book when my only other review on this new blog of mine was for the same author. That is because I … Continue reading →

As a librarian, I had often recommended Michael Morpugo’s books to children in the library, particularly War Horse and Private Peaceful, a book about a very young soldier. War Horse, the play, had been at the Catford Studio Theatre just at the … Continue reading →

Another Day, Another Tangent

Writing To Empty My Mind

I write and I often go off at tangents. Tessa Tangent's my nickname and, at home, I'm called Tessa more than I am my real name, Heather.
In the 90s, I had short stories published in magazines like Ludus and For Women. I also won a cherished second prize in a BBC travel writing competition, was the writer of a newsletter for a dry ski slope and had a newspaper article about the slope published.
At the same time, I wrote half a first draft of a novel then, for reasons I may reveal, I stopped writing. After a long fallow period, I am writing again - and not a moment too soon...

About Tessa Tangent

This blog represents some of the captured thoughts of Tessa Tangent, a published writer of short stories and articles who is now in the process of writing her third book. The previous two attempts were hopeless.
Tessa Tangent is the nickname of Heather Mitchell. Her OH labelled her with this moniker because she goes off at tangents during conversation. This has also been noticed with her writing.
Please do leave a comment or contact by email: tessatangent@gmail.com.